Strong G4202πορνεία

sexual sin

Transliteration
porneia
Pronunciation
por-ni'-ah
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From G4203; harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively idolatry: - fornication.

Detailed definition

πορνεία, -ας, ἡ
(πορνεύω), [in LXX for תַּזְנוּת and cogn. forms;]
fornication: Act.15:20, 29 21:25, 1Co.5:1 6:13 6:18, 2Co.12:21, Gal.5:19, Eph.5:3, Col.3:5, 1Th.4:3 (Lft., Notes, 53), Rev.9:21; pl. (see WM, 220; Bl., § 32, 6), 1Co.7:2; disting. from μοιχεία, Mat.15:19, Mrk.7:21; = μοιχεία (Amos 8:17 Sir.23:23, al.), Mat.5:32 19:9. Metaphorical (of idolatry: Deu.23:2, Hos.1:2): Jhn.8:41 (Westc., in l), and so perh. (Thayer-Grimm, see word; but see Swete, in 11.), Rev.2:21 14:18 17:2, 4 18:3 19:2.†
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In the Bible

Strong G4202 appears in 25 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • fornication25

First verses

  1. Matthew 5:32
    But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
  2. Matthew 15:19
    For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
  3. Matthew 19:9
    And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
  4. Mark 7:21
    For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
  5. John 8:41
    Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
  6. Acts 15:20
    But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
  7. Acts 15:29
    That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
  8. Acts 21:25
    As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
  9. Romans 1:29
    Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
  10. 1 Corinthians 5:1
    It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
  11. 1 Corinthians 6:13
    Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
  12. 1 Corinthians 6:18
    Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
  13. 1 Corinthians 7:2
    Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
  14. 2 Corinthians 12:21
    And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
  15. Galatians 5:19
    Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
  16. Ephesians 5:3
    But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
  17. Colossians 3:5
    Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
  18. 1 Thessalonians 4:3
    For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
  19. Revelation 2:21
    And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
  20. Revelation 9:21
    Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
πορν-εία,
Ionic dialect πορν-είη, ἡ, prostitution, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 7.122, etc.)]; of a man, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.200)]; fornication, unchastity, [NT (NT.Matt.19.9: _plural_, NT.1Cor.7.2.)]
II metaphorically, idolatry, [LXX (LXX.Hos.4.11, +others)]